Improvement in paper boxes



I I 2 snaps-sheen 2. 3 H. A. MANN, Jr.

Paper-Box.

No. 207,813. Patented'Sept.10,-1 878.-

N- PETERs. PHDTO LITHOGRAPHER WASHINGTON- D. a

UNITED STATES "PATENT OEEIoE.

HENRY A. MANN, JR, OF BALLSTON SPA, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 207,813, dated September 10, 1878 application filed August 9, 1878.

purpose when it shall no longer be required to be used as a mere packing-box.

It is well known that paper and other collars are commonly coiled and placed in cylindrical boxes made of paper and sold so packed.

My improvement consists in making a box for the same purpose of the ordinary shape, but with two covers, both removable, and the body so made that when no longer necessary as a part of a box, which is thereafter generally thrown away when emptied, it may readily be utilized as an inexpensive, useful, and ornamental lamp-shade.

In order to fully explain my invention, I will describe the construction of my box and of its component parts.

Figure 1 represents my box, with a movable flanged cover, A A, at both top and bottom, B being the body. Fig. 2 represents the bodypaper B, which, being rolled andinserted into the covers with them, constitutes the box without pasting or other mode of fastening. Fig. 3 representstheunattachedcovers. Fig.4represents the metal top which encircles the chimney of a lamp. Fig. 5 represents the lampshade formed from the body of the box B, and in its proper position for use. Fig. 6 represents the lamp-shade reversed, a a showing strips of gummed cloth or paper for joining and securing the seams of the sections of the shade, and b b showing metallic tags or fasteners, which may be used instead for the same purpose, if desired.

Fig. 1 sufficiently explains itselff Fig. 2

shows a strip of paper printed in six uniform trapezoidal sections, each. in shape like a face of a truncated pyramid, and so divided that alternate sections are inverted, with a dotted line as a guide for cutting apart.

It will be understood that when both covers, Fig. 3, are taken off, the bodyB unrolls. The

sections may then be separated, placed in proper position, and be readily united by the gummed strips, or, at pleasure, the metallic fasteners. The metallic top, Fig. 4, is then or may sooner be placed in position, and secured by means of the projecting parts 0 c, which are passed through the upper part of each section and bent over. The metallic top, Fig. 4, and gummed strips or fasteners are inclosed in each box when packedfor sale. 7

Each section of the shade bears a pictorial work of art, and, notwithstanding the fact that it is both useful and ornamental, the manufacturer can, without loss'to himself, furnish it with all its parts to the purchaser of his goods who pays the usual price therefor.

The chief merit of my invention consists in the cheapness, which enables the manufacturer to give the article for the price of an ordinary box, and which acts as an inducement to buy.

The body of the box may consist of paper or other material, and the sections may be in number more or fewer than six, as the principle is the same in either case.

I claim- 3 A new article of manufacture consisting of the collar-box with movable cover at each end, the unfastened body B, laid out in uniform trapezoidal sections, which, when separated and reunited by means hereinbefore set forth, constitute a lamp-shade, all substantially as described.

HENRY A. MANN, JR. 

